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Slovin v. Slovin is a multifaceted matrimonial action that started when Rita Slovin sued her husband, Michael Slovin, for divorce under the jurisdiction's no-fault divorce provisions. Rita seeks sole custody of the couple's two children, while Michael seeks a significant equitable distribution award and sole custody of their children. Michael has also brought a separate action against Rita for battery and slander. Slovin is a multi-purpose case file divided into five modules. The first two modules focus on child custodythe negotiation and trial of the child custody case. The second two modules concern the trial and negotiation of financial issues, with sole consideration to equitable distribution. In addition to those traditional matrimonial litigation issues, there is an additional module that introduces the theory of marital tort as an offshoot of the matrimonial litigation. There are two causes of action, one for battery and the other for defamation. The insertion of those two tort claims allows for additional training in basic trial advocacy skills while developing more complex theories of the case. Further, the related battery and defamation actions allow participants to gradually develop their advocacy skills. Slovin v. Slovin features eleven witnesses, depositions and testimony, expert reports, and modern electronic evidence in the form of Twitter posts that are accessible on online “microsites.”

Distributed-memory multiprocessing systems (DMS), such as Intel's hypercubes, the Paragon, Thinking Machine's CM-5, and the Meiko Computing Surface, have rapidly gained user acceptance and promise to deliver the computing power required to solve the grand challenge problems of Science and Engineering. These machines are relatively inexpensive to build, and are potentially scalable to large numbers of processors. However, they are difficult to program: the non-uniformity of the memory which makes local accesses much faster than the transfer of non-local data via message-passing operations implies that the locality of algorithms must be exploited in order to achieve acceptable performance. The management of data, with the twin goals of both spreading the computational workload and minimizing the delays caused when a processor has to wait for non-local data, becomes of paramount importance. When a code is parallelized by hand, the programmer must distribute the program's work and data to the processors which will execute it. One of the common approaches to do so makes use of the regularity of most numerical computations. This is the so-called Single Program Multiple Data (SPMD) or data parallel model of computation. With this method, the data arrays in the original program are each distributed to the processors, establishing an ownership relation, and computations defining a data item are performed by the processors owning the data.

This book contains the technical papers presented at the 16th International Symposium on Acoustical Imaging which was held in Chicago, Illinois USA from June 10-12, 1987. This meeting has long been a leading forum for acoustic imaging scientists and engineers to meet and exchange ideas from a wide range of disciplines. As evidenced by the diversity of topical groups into which the papers are organized, participants at the meeting and readers of this volume can benefit from developments in medical imaging, materials testing, mathematics, microsocopy and seismic exploration. A common denominator in this field, as its name implies, is the generation, display, manipulation and analysis of images made with mechanical wave energy. Sound waves respond to the elastic properties of the medium through which they propagate, and as such, are capable of characterizing that medium; something that cannot be done by other means. It is astonishing to realize that acoustic wave imaging is commonly performed over about eight decades of frequency, with seismology and microscopy serving as lower and upper bounds, respectively. The physics is the same, but the implementations are quite different and there is much to learn. The conference chairman and editor wishes to express his appreciation to those who helped run the symposium - namely the Technical Review COIIII1ttee and Session Cbair:aen including Floyd Dunn, Gordon S.

In den letzten Jahren hat sich der Trend zu einer hoheren Komplexitat in der Fertigung industrieller Guter verstarkt. Optische und spektroskopische Methoden zur Prozessanalytik sind sehr schnell, messen beruhrungslos und damit zerstorungsfrei. Mit geringem Aufwand wird so eine hundertprozentige Kontrolle bei der Qualitatsprufung moglich. Kernpunkt einer neuen Strategie ist der Einsatz von analytischen Online-Methoden als Qualitatskontrolle sowie die Kombination dieser Techniken mit den Methoden der Datenanalyse zur Steuerung von Produktionsprozessen. Das Buch liefert sowohl einen Uberblick uber die industriell bedeutenden Analyseverfahren als auch praktische Beispiele zur Einfuhrung der Online-Analytik in den industriellen Alltag. Damit wird die gesamte Prozess- und Fertigungsindustrie angesprochen - von der chemischen, pharmazeutischen, biotechnologischen und verfahrenstechnischen Industrie bis zur Kunststoff-, Automobil- und der klassischen Fertigungsindustrie. Nach einer Lehre als Chemielaborant, einem Chemie-Ingenieurstudium an der Fachhochschule Reutlingen und einem Chemiestudium an der Universitat in Tubingen hat Rudolf W. Kessler 1980 am Institut fur Physikalische Chemie in Tubingen promoviert. Seine berufliche Laufbahn fuhrte ihn uber die Forschung bei Daimler Benz 1985 an die Fachhochschule Reutlingen. Als Grundungsdirektor des Institutes fur Angewandte Forschung 1990 und dessen Leiter bis zum Jahr 2000 war er ma?geblich am Aufbau der Prozessanalytik in Forschung und Lehre der Hochschule Reutlingen beteiligt. Zahlreiche nationale und viele internationale Projekte, sowie Forschungsaufenthalte in China, USA, England und vor kurzem auch wieder ein Jahr in der Industrie haben den Praxisbezug der Lehre und der Forschung auf dem Gebiet der optischen Online-Spektroskopie hergestellt. Seit einigen Jahren beschaftigt sich Rudolf W. Kessler auch mit der Nahfeldspektroskopie und dem'Chemical Imaging'von Werkstoffen und Oberflachen.